Food Reviews & Stories
901 Take Out—an unassuming shack just uphill from a pair
of gas stations—is home to something rare: a vegan, gluten-free food
item even better than its meaty, carb-laden original.
The
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Ración makes joyful, high-tech tapas.

Food Reviews & Stories
The world has found three great Spanish loves in the past
decade. First, tapas bars with cheap bites of interesting food meant to
be sampled and shared. Second, the wide range of safety-glasses-re
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Old Salt is a Renaissance restaurant.

Food Reviews & Stories
Old Salt contains multitudes. A stately
6,000-square-foot pleasure dome of food in the otherwise barren Cully
neighborhood, the venture encompasses a butchery that works only from
whole animal c
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A very short play.

Food Reviews & Stories
A veteran news reporter and a grizzled editor are having a discussion in the Willamette Week newsroom.
Reporter: So we go to this new bakery, Bluebird, at 24th and Thurman, to talk about a story.
Ed
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Food Reviews & Stories
Sometimes it’s the simple things that leave you reeling.
Remember your first Ike’s Wings? Even if you’d known great chicken
wings, there’s something special about Pok Pok’s signature dis
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Andy Ricker’s new noodle joint has great noodles, even better custard.

Food Reviews & Stories
Andy Ricker is too busy to gather coconuts. Makes sense,
given the Pok Pok owner has six restaurants on two coasts, a nationally
distributed line of drinking vinegars and a cookbook coming out thi
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Our summer interns gorge themselves on worldly ramen.

Food Reviews & Stories
How good can instant ramen get? Good enough for Pok Pok’s
Andy Ricker, Portland’s best-known chef and the restaurateur behind one
of The New York Times’ top restaurants of 2012, who likes Th
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In defense of Shari’s, America’s best freeway-exit diners.

Food Reviews & Stories
Portlanders rarely miss a chance to feel their hearts
swell with civic pride, especially when it comes to unfancy food. While
our upper tier is only what a city of our size and wealth requires—w
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Levant has a strong pitch, bats .350.

Food Reviews & Stories
Levant, chef Scott Snyder’s new Buckman restaurant in a
former bakery, is a staid dining hall of warm wood, hot brick and
neutral walls that seem to buff the room’s sound into a soft cushion o
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Who among us is righteous enough to eat of the sacred buttercream Bible-beating Oregon bakers have denied gays?

Food Reviews & Stories
Sugar, flour, eggs and water are now munitions in
America’s culture war. Or so you’d think from two Oregon bakeries that
recently refused to make cakes for same-sex weddings, getting national
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